Wes Streeting Can’t Figure Out How To Fund Labour’s NHS Hospital Replacement Plan

Plans to replace deteriorating NHS hospitals that could put people at risk from collapsing structures are being shelved by Labour.

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged 40 new hospitals by the end of the decade, but now the plan looks to be in ruins.

Labour is set to announce that many of the crumbling NHS hospitals in England that were due to be replaced by 2030 will not be completed according to the original timeframe.

According to The Guardian, many trusts will undoubtedly be concerned that patients will continue to get care in hazardous settings and in facilities that are not suitable for their intended use after the announcement, which is scheduled for next week.

Local Members of Parliament are likely to criticise the decision upon the publication of a government review of the program.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is set to blame the Conservatives for leaving Labour a massive undertaking that was budgeted only until this March with costs of about £30 billion. 

In September, Streeting said that 12 of the 40 projects, could go ahead, including seven facing the threat of imminent collapse because they contain Raac concrete.

But he also ordered a review into the cost, viability and timescale of proceeding with 25 others which involve ageing and dilapidated hospitals, parts of which are falling apart and increasingly disrupting care for patients.

The delays follow scrutiny by the Treasury, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England, which has included scrutiny of the funds involved. 

Now, the expense will be dispersed over a longer time frame.

It is anticipated that Streeting will state that redevelopments will eventually take place and provide updated program prices.

However, a large number of these projects are already well advanced and are located in hospitals that are in dire need of renovation.

Streeting cautioned that the project would probably be delayed for several years in a letter he issued to all of England’s Members of Parliament in September.

Streeting said: ‘Because we inherited a programme that was unfunded beyond March 2025 and a wider fiscal inheritance that was hugely challenging, we may have to consider rephasing schemes so that they can be taken forward as fiscal conditions allow.

‘A structured and agreed rolling investment approach will mean proceeding with these schemes will be subject to investment decisions at future spending reviews.’

The risks from crumbling hospitals is now so great that some are ‘outright dangerous’, Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, has said.

However, how is this possible? Where has all of the money gone since the NHS’s funding was announced? Did Starmer spend it on his jollies?

Our government have no clue how to handle the economy – they couldn’t even run a bath and it’s all a game to them.

Rachel Reeves increased National Insurance – so where is it going? Because there has been no improvement in services and no cuts in waiting lists. It’s all smoke and mirrors – lies and deception.

For years, they have claimed to be able to improve the NHS. Those of us who had previously endured a Labour government were aware that it was all falsehoods, but they are typically not discovered this rapidly.

We can find funds for people crossing the channel and for war that has nothing to do with us. Our people must come first. Our healthcare system and our military members are the two things that our government does not safeguard.

NHS Nurses Share Their Harrowing Experiences Of Third World Conditions

In horrifying testimony to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) study, one nurse in the South East of England said a patient had lain dead in a corridor ‘for hours’.

Another nurse, in Yorkshire and the Humber, said departments were becoming ‘overwhelmed’ on a daily basis, adding: ‘At its worst, (we are) asking someone to go round and make sure people are still alive.’

Patients dying in chairs and trolleys in corridors was now a familiar occurrence, according to one nurse in the South East.

The nurse added: ‘All the fundamentals of care have broken down – we are no better than a developing world casualty.’

A nurse in London said: ‘It’s awful – it feels like we’re living in a Third World country or worse. I dread going into work and wish I’d picked an alternative career.’

Another nurse in the South said: ‘I really felt bad for the patients – most of whom were elderly and unable to express their feelings about being cared for in very inhumane and Third World conditions.’

A nurse in Scotland said: ‘I worked throughout Covid-19 and… this lack of care in the broken system is worse. People are dying as a result of ambulances being held at hospitals and calls are eventually being responded to almost two days after 999 has been called. This has to end, now!’

A cancer patient whose immunity was extremely low because of her treatment was left in a busy area close to a staff room and toilet in a hospital in the South West.

A nurse said: ‘She should have been in a side room. She was very upset and crying. We put screens around her but it was constantly busy. That poor lady eventually passed away.’

A nurse in London said: ‘The department is over-capacity on a daily basis, leaving patients being cared for in corridors, on chairs when they should be in beds, on ambulance trolleys, in relatives’ rooms, in viewing rooms, anywhere there is a space.’

A nurse in the East of England said: ‘Patients miscarrying and returning for treatment are being bedded in the busy waiting room which is used for emergency attenders and an outpatient department.’

A nurse in Scotland said the hospital had started placing beds ‘in the middle of bays in the wards in addition to corridor beds for more space’. 

They added: ‘It is degrading, undignified, and at times unsafe for patients who are already angry due to the long waits, sometimes waiting in the emergency department for over 35 hours… just to be put in the corridor. The system is broken.’

For patients who are fortunate enough to find a cubicle, corridor care also presents challenges.

One nurse told of the chaos of patients having cardiac arrests in the corridor, adding: ‘Having to roll a trolley through a corridor and the whole department to re-sus straddling a patient doing CPR while everyone watches on. It just feels so undignified.’

In the South East, patients experienced cardiac arrests in the hallway or had their cubicles obstructed by people on trolleys in front of them, which caused life-saving CPR to be delayed.

A nurse at a hospital in the area said: ‘Despite these events, we still are obliged to deliver care in the corridor.’

What more can we anticipate when there is no infrastructure being constructed and a positive net migration of almost one million people each year? We will eventually level off until we all live like the third-world nations from which migrants have migrated.

Britain’s population has grown due to migration during the past 20 years and more, with many newcomers having severe health problems.

Due to a dearth of candidates, the NHS has been forced to close hospital beds and has unfilled professional medical positions. This is supported by a government cap on the number of physicians who can receive training each year and the number of physicians who can transition from general practice to speciality.

Too much demand, too little supply, and an inept government to do anything sensible about the situation. The NHS is failing and subsequent UK governments are watching it happen.

No doubt Starmer will be creaming his pants as he condemns the Tories, and in some instances he is right, but not all!

And when our money is desperately needed here, why do we continue to send it overseas? We cannot afford it, thus our government should immediately halt all aid to other countries.

Labour will not stop migrants from coming to the UK because they know that by giving them a vote, they will swing the next General Election and we Brits don’t matter to them anymore.

Despite Labour Sneaking Through ‘Boiler Tax’, Miliband Admits Heat Pumps May Never Be Cheaper Than Gas Boilers

Heat pumps may never be cheaper than gas boilers, Ed Miliband has said, despite Labour creeping a ‘boiler tax’ through Parliament.

Despite worries about potential consumer costs, the Energy Secretary reaffirmed that the government has no plans to impose a future ban on gas boilers.

Boiler manufacturers will be penalised under the plan, which will go into effect in April if they don’t sell enough heat pumps.

Companies in the sector have previously warned it would add £120 to the cost of a new boiler – leading it to be dubbed the ‘boiler tax’.

Speaking at the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee on Wednesday, Mr Miliband said he was ‘wary’ of stopping people from having gas boilers by a specific date if the government cannot guarantee greener alternatives will be cheaper.

With a substantial amount of the UK’s carbon footprint coming from gas heating of homes, the previous Conservative government had outlined plans to ban the sale of new gas boilers by 2035.

This meant that by that date, homes wishing to replace their boilers would have to choose a more environmentally friendly heating solution, like a heat pump.

Ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised by scientists, campaigners and MPs in 2023 when he backtracked on several net zero policies, including weakening the mooted boiler ban to an 80 percent phase-out by 2035.

Last week, it was reported that the new government had ditched plans for a 2035 ban on gas boilers in its new housebuilding standards.

When questioned by Members of Parliament over this decision, Mr Miliband informed the committee that Labour had no intention of enacting such a ban.

He said: ‘I’m very cautious on these questions because we can say to people: ‘You need to get a heat pump, not a gas boiler, potentially at some point in the future’.

‘But I’m very wary that we’re going to stop people having gas boilers at a point when we can’t guarantee that heat pumps are going to be cheaper for people.’

The Energy Secretary argued that in opposition, Labour never said it would reverse Mr Sunak’s row-back on his Government’s boiler ban plans.

‘We did that deliberately because my bottom line is that we proceed in a way that means we can say to people: ‘You’re going to be better off in making this transition’,’ Mr Miliband said.

‘I do not want to be in a position where I say to people: ‘You must go down this road’ and then people say to me rightly: ‘Look, you’re going to make me worse off’.

‘So that’s our position on that.’

The cost of a heat pump can vary from £6,500 to £18,000, depending on the kind of heat pump, the size of the property, and the labour needed. The cost of a combi boiler in the UK can range from £1,500 to £4,500, including installation, but the price depends on several factors – what kind of boiler, the size of the property and the number of bedrooms, and the brand that you prefer, but still way more affordable than a heat pump.

And out of interest, I wonder how many of our overpaid, underworked pretentious, not-so-smart MPs have heat pumps, and if they have, how long have they had them for?

Most of us know anything that has a tax incentive is probably going to be extremely subpar and don’t forget, tax incentives cost the taxpayer money because there is no such thing as government money!

The MP Of A Putin Hardliner Warns Of Russia Striking Britain ‘And Wiping It Off The Earth’

A hardline Russian MP has warned that it is ‘inevitable’ that Russia will attack Britain directly with missiles to wipe it off the Earth.

Reservist general and pro-Putin MP Andrey Gurulev said that the Kremlin will exact revenge on Ukraine for using British Storm Shadow missiles against his nation.

He told Kremlin-controlled state television: ‘There’s still going to come a point where we’re going to strike. It is inevitable.

‘The question is simply a matter of time and decision-making. And there is no other way.

‘If today Britain is hitting our territory with its missiles from Ukraine, everyone realises that they will not fly anywhere without NATO control systems and satellite navigation.’

The Russian defence ministry claims six Storm Shadows were fired at the Bryansk region on Tuesday alone as part of Ukraine’s most extensive aerial bombardment of the war on Vladimir Putin’s territory. Moscow declared the £2 million missiles were shot down.

It was claimed that two more Storm Shadows were shot down over the Black Sea.

The Russian assault on Ukraine today is perceived as retaliation for the assaults on fuel and chemical factories that occurred the day before.

Gurulev, however, predicted that Putin would eventually target Britain directly.

‘I believe that this is a direct reason for Britain to simply not be on Earth,’ he said.

‘And I’m not the only one who thinks that we’re not the only ones who think that.

‘I think 80 per cent of the world will clap for us. That’s 100 per cent.’

TV propagandists have previously suggested using Putin’s new Satan-2 missile – known to the Russians as Sarmat – to destroy Britain.

This is a 208-ton intercontinental silo-launched 15,880mph hypersonic nuclear missile, the size of a 14-storey tower block.

It is purportedly used in conjunction with Russian nuclear weapons.

The Russians claim that six US-supplied ATACMS missiles also struck the Bryansk area.

Gurulev said earlier this week that Donald Trump and Putin should split up Greenland, with each receiving half of the region.

Additionally, he predicted that Russia would take control of Spitsbergen, a Norwegian island in the Arctic where military activities are prohibited, and use it as a base for defence.

Ukraine had to implement preemptive power outages after Russia conducted a huge aerial bombardment on the nation on Wednesday, according to the Ukrainian energy minister.

‘The enemy continues to terrorize Ukrainians,’ Herman Halushchenko wrote on Facebook, urging residents to stay in shelters during the ongoing threat and follow official updates.

The state energy company Ukrenergo reported emergency power outages in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kirovohrad regions.

According to Andrii Sadovyi, the mayor of the city, Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in the western Lviv area early on Wednesday with missile attacks.

The point is that if Putin strikes there will be retaliation and Russia will get wiped out as well, so what would they have accomplished? It’s like committing suicide and then believing that once you have done it, you have won – nobody wins in war!

It’s also extremely strange that we have heard nothing from Keir Starmer on this, or reassuring the public over these threats – why not?

The UK government don’t have an inkling what they are dealing with, and Putin is likely to do the most excessive things just out of sheer maliciousness.

Roosevelt said the art of diplomacy was to ‘talk softly and carry a big stick.’ Putin is carrying a small stick, and talking extremely loudly.

Grooming Scandal Blamed On ‘Peasant Immigrants’

Kemi Badenoch has blamed ‘peasant’ immigrants from impoverished parts of foreign countries for the grooming gangs problem.

The Tory leader suggested problems came from ‘sub-communities’ within nations that were ‘very rural’.

In an interview with GB News, she said examining the cultural issues was one of the main reasons she backed a national inquiry.

‘One is on the perpetrators’ side: where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation, there’s a lot of generalisation and many innocent people will end up being grouped in with them,’ she said.

‘But there is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from sub-communities within those countries.

‘People with a particular background, work background. People with a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they might have been in.’

The comments were branded ‘shocking’ by the Greens, while Labour MP Diane Abbott said Ms Badenoch was showing ‘gross opportunism’. 

No 10 said PM Keir Starmer would not use the same language.

Sir Keir and Ms Badenoch have often disagreed over demands for a national investigation.

The Government has so far knocked back calls for a national review in favour of locally-led inquiries.

The PM has claimed that the emphasis should be on enforcing recommendations from Professor Alexis Jay’s 2022 report.

The problem reappeared at the beginning of the year after US entrepreneur Elon Musk issued a series of criticisms directed at the PM.

Mrs Badenoch said a national inquiry would shine a light on the truth and hold people to account.

‘This is about those victims who deserve justice,’ she said.

‘The survivors who deserve justice by making sure that every single perpetrator we can find is caught and brought to justice, and those who failed in their duty to protect their children are held to account and exposed.’

Ms Badenoch’s remarks followed the Rotherham Labour MP’s support for a nationwide investigation into gang grooming.

Sarah Champion called for a nationwide inquiry that would be led locally and probe the failings of authorities over grooming gangs.

She proposed a national ‘Telford-style’ inquiry rolled out by the Home Office to places that trigger the threshold for greater scrutiny.

After that, the results would be sent back to the Home Office for a nationwide reaction.

‘Child sexual abuse is endemic in the UK and needs to be recognised as a national priority,’ she said.

‘It is clear that the public distrusts governments and authorities when it comes to preventing and prosecuting child abuse, especially child sexual exploitation.’

This should have been resolved years ago, but it wasn’t because our leadership felt—and still feels—the need to appease some segments of our society.

They should have been packed up and shipped out.

And it wasn’t dealt with because certain people, and they know who they are were well-known groomers targeting vulnerable children.

Rape is one of the many things they did to these children. They also tortured and mutilated them. Some will never be able to have children of their own and some have killed themselves. Numerous more horror stories have not been revealed, yet Labour will not sanction a National Inquiry with powers of arrest. And we need to ask ourselves why.

Tony Blair should take part of the blame, but the truth is that the previous Conservative administration often discussed implementing a points-based system, but it never happened.

We did once in the UK have a flock of pristine sheep, but now we have wolves that roam among us.

The British public is being told that their views are racist if they make any remarks about someone else’s beliefs or culture, this is why some behaviours have gone unchallenged, and misogynistic cultures have been permitted to thrive.

My Wife Died In My Arms After Her GP Ignored Her Terminal Cancer In An Over-The-Phone Appointment

A mother-of-three was misdiagnosed in an over-the-phone GP appointment, four months before dying of cancer. 

Her grieving husband, who saw his wife die in his arms, is now demanding that phone consultations with a general practitioner be discontinued.

Laura Barlow, 33, was recently wed to her husband Michael when she started to feel unwell, experiencing abdominal pain and blood in her poo.

The couple have three children together Bella-Mia, Summer-Akye and Bonnie-Rae.

In October 2023, she was diagnosed with endometriosis on a telephone call with a GP at Stickney Surgery in Lincolnshire.

Her GP scheduled a gynaecological consultation at Pilgrim Hospital and prescribed medicines.

While at work two months later, she started to feel intense pain in her stomach. Michael tried to take her to the GP but was advised to instead visit the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at the hospital where she was given morphine to help manage the pain. 

After more than two hours stuck in a waiting room, Michael claims they were dismissed by doctors because Laura was already being treated for endometriosis.

Michael said: ‘We went to Urgent Care and she was assessed and they gave her morphine for the pain.

‘After two hours of waiting we saw a doctor who told us that because she was already seeing a doctor for endometriosis, there was no point him dealing with it as well.’

A week later on New Year’s Eve, Mrs Barlow was taken to hospital with pain in her abdomen and was told to come back on January 2 for an ultrasound scan.

The scan showed lesions on her liver and she was put on a two-week cancer pathway.

A few weeks later in mid-January, she was admitted to Pilgrim Hospital’s A&E department where she was finally diagnosed with cancer.

Micheal said: ‘It was a shock when we heard she had cancer, we thought if it was the liver, they could cut a bit out and you can live without it. We thought she would be ok.’

On February 2, Michael and Laura were supposed to be on holiday at CenterParcs with their children. While their children went ahead with Laura’s sister, the couple heard the devastating news about Laura’s cancer.

They were told that Laura had 95 per cent cancer in her liver and her bowel and that she was now terminal.

‘They told her to go home and spend time with our kids.’

Michael and Laura hooked up with their kids at CenterParcs where they enjoyed a final family holiday together.

Laura was wheelchair-bound and taking morphine for her pain during the short trip.

Laura’s health continued to worsen a few days following the holiday.

Sadly, she died on February 6.

Michael said: ‘I had phoned her dad to meet me at the house to help. The doctors had given her some stuff to make her relaxed.

‘We fell asleep together, she was in my arms. I woke up to the others telling me “Mike, she’s gone.’

Michael believes that blood tests should have been taken earlier.

‘It makes me angry because it is all about what if,’ he said, ‘could they have caught it earlier, could we have had longer?

‘I’m not saying she wouldn’t have died, but could we have got another six months together?’

Almost a year on, Michael is being supported by his family as he raises his three children as a single parent.

He said: ‘I have three kids aged two, three and ten. I have a fantastic family who support me every day as much as they can.

‘It is hard though. I have my three-year-old asking if mummy is coming home. I have to tell her she is with nanny now and they are both watching over us.’ 

After Laura passed away, Michael launched a petition urging the government to require in-person consultations for every doctor’s appointment.

The petition has already acquired more than 130,000 signatures.

He said: ‘A lot of people have told me it has pushed them to see a doctor instead of talking on the phone.

‘If a person says they would like to see a doctor, they should have that right. If someone had seen her things may have been different. My wife never got that right.’

A representative for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pilgrim Hospital, and Stickney Surgery, said: ”The NHS in Lincolnshire would like to again extend our deepest condolences to Laura’s family.

‘Patient confidentiality means we are unable to comment on individual cases, but we will continue to speak to Laura’s family about their concerns as appropriate.’

I feel very sad for this family and I do wonder how many people are now dying undiagnosed. I would guess the figures would astound most of us.

The NHS has long been unfit for purpose, with the most severe decline occurring in the last five years. Because the third world is flooding into our nation, we are now at the mercy of a third-world service, and I worry whether there is any hope for the future.

It’s time that monthly publishing of avoidable deaths was mandated for the NHS because this lady may have been saved by blood tests done on a first visit to the doctor’s surgery to rule out anything suspicious.

The NHS is now a lottery for life and death.

It is shameful how after 5 years on from the COVID pandemic GPs are still not seeing patients face to face. Every other occupation has gone back to work, but doctors still haven’t, yet they are still getting paid for it – extremely favourably paid for that matter!

England And Wales Arrest Foreign Nationals For Child Sexual Abuse

At least 1,860 foreign nationals were arrested last year over sexual crimes against children in England and Wales, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.

And campaigner Dame Jasvinder Sanghera – who has received death threats for speaking out – said she had ‘no doubt’ grooming gangs were continuing brazenly to target youngsters. She demanded a new public inquiry.

The Centre of Migration Control think tank last week published data showing foreign nationals were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested for sex crimes as British suspects.

Police made more than 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual crimes in the first ten months of last year in 41 of the 43 forces in England and Wales, more than 26 percent of the total estimated 35,000 sexual offences arrests, despite foreigners making up just nine percent of the population.

Now the Mail on Sunday can reveal that the think tank’s freedom of information requests – answered by 22 forces – allows the figures to be broken down for child sex offences by region.

Arrests for child sex crimes by foreign nationals were at 660 in London for the first ten months of last year, 309 in the West Midland, 187 in Greater Manchester, 162 in Kent and 105 in Essex.

At least 312 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual crimes on children under the age of 13, with 98 in London, 61 in the West Midlands, and 40 in Greater Manchester.

There were more than 265 foreign citizens arrested for creating, possessing or distributing indecent photos of children, with 95 taking place in the capital.

And at least 67 foreigners were arrested for prostitution-related crimes.

Those figures will understate the full scope of the scandal, as they are for just half of the forces, and are for just ten months of the year.

The disclosures come as the debate over grooming gangs of Pakistani origin targeting white girls offers little sign of abating with Sir Keir Starmer still attempting to end calls for a public inquiry.

Dame Jasvinder, who was shunned by her family at age 16 after refusing an arranged marriage to an older man, founded Karma Nirvana, a charity supporting victims of honour-based abuse in the UK, in 1993.

She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve lost count of the number of times victims have come to me saying they are not being taken seriously because people are worried about community tensions.

‘People are worried about being called a racist. People are worried about treading on cultural ties and then on the back of that, people have not acted in response to these victims.

‘I’ve spent nearly 30 years trying to get agencies to recognize that this issue has to be dealt with as a safeguarding issue and not an issue you can just tiptoe around because it’s from a different culture.

‘Cultural acceptance does not mean accepting the unacceptable.

‘I’ve sat opposite victims who were harmed by grooming gangs and they have said to me, ‘Jasvinder, these perpetrators will say to us go to the police, but they’re not going to believe you, because we will just say they’ve been racist.’

People fearing being branded racist gives perpetrators power, she added.

‘If perpetrators believe somehow they are untouchable because professionals may not take them as seriously, because they are fearing being called a racist or fearing treading on cultural ties, you’re giving the perpetrators more power.’

In the first ten months of last year, at least 131,000 foreign nationals were arrested in England and Wales, accounting for 16.1 percent of arrests. They also accounted for 26.1 percent of sexual crimes.

This is the first person from the Asian Community that I’ve heard publicly stand up and condemn what happens within their community. She is a brave woman to stand up for what she believes in.

Why are the leaders of these communities where these gangs are operating, why are they not condemning what these men are doing?

They should all be booted out – no legal aid for these people, which I might add is being paid by the taxpayer. Our government have no justifications for keeping them here in the UK, they need to go!

Although Dame Jasvinder Sanghera is a courageous woman, this just serves to highlight the system’s cowardice and complicity.

Any foreign national found guilty should be expelled back to their country of birth after serving their jail time, and never again permitted to enter the UK again.

People who come to this country should be on a probationary period and if they cannot fit in or understand the laws of the UK then they should be shipped home again. Violate the rules of the UK and indeed cannot acclimate to our way of life, removal without appeal.

Naturally, based on human rights, all of these offenders will be allowed to stay in the UK. As a result, we ought to enact legislation that declares that foreign nationals who commit any crimes in the UK forfeit their right to stay.

It has now been proved time and time again that Sir Keir is a liar. Labour needs to go!

An Illness Surge Hits Britain As Carrie Johnson Is Hospitalised

Carrie Johnson has revealed that she spent a week in hospital after suffering from flu and pneumonia, as England’s emergency services struggle with their ‘busiest winter ever’.

Sharing a picture of her in a hospital bed, the wife of ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that she spent the first few days of 2025 at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxfordshire after enduring a ‘nasty’ chest infection for nearly 18 days. 

‘It just got out and I was struggling to breathe properly’, she wrote in an Instagram caption. 

‘Hospital confirmed I had flu and pneumonia. I was there nearly a week and I’m still not recovered. It could take another few weeks until I feel like myself again.’

Carrie went on to praise the team of staff who supported her through her recovery, calling NHS doctors and nurses ‘the best people on earth’. 

‘I say it a lot but they have looked after me and my family when we’ve needed it most and I will never not be enormously grateful. They are the absolute best of us.’

‘I was at the John Radcliffe and I cannot thank them enough. When I was particularly low, one nurse even serenaded me by my bed’, she shared.

Carrie also urged people to get the flu jab, saying: ‘I really, really wish I had. It totally slipped my mind this year.’

‘No guarantee, but I very possibly wouldn’t have spent the last 3 weeks horribly, horribly ill had I got it’, she added.

The former PM’s wife also shared a second image of a green dinosaur and a heart-shaped princess key ring, which she said belonged to her young children Wilfred and Romy.

‘The second picture is Wilf’s favourite dinosaur toy “Greenie” and Romy’s princess key ring which they gave me to take to the hospital with me and lived by my bedside. Health and family are everything.’

It comes amid warnings that England’s emergency services are battling their ‘busiest winter ever’ as flu cases continue to soar.

More than 2.3 million patients visited A&E in December while ambulance teams tackled over 800,000 incidents—the highest number ever recorded in a single month.

Additionally, hospital admissions are up a fifth in a week and almost five times the amount recorded in early December, according to separate monitoring data that tracks England’s flu pandemic.

Twelve hospitals have already reported catastrophic occurrences as a result of the crisis, indicating that they are having difficulty offering patients safe care.

If general practitioners opened their offices over the weekend during this hectic period, it may be beneficial since these patients might be able to receive treatment at their office rather than having to visit A&E.

In order to relieve some of the pressure on A&E on weekends, it should be mandatory for them to open when assistance is needed, like right now with the flu and other infections. Mind you, it would help if you could get an appointment in the first place!

Many people have to call their GP surgery at 8.30 am and then have to join a gigantic phone queue or wait for a callback. For a face-to-face, you typically have to wait three weeks or more, and that’s for a doctor whose name you normally can’t pronounce.

But I don’t think Carrie Johnson had to wait for an appointment for hours, and I’m willing to wager that getting her a room wasn’t an issue! At least she had a bed, some people have to wait in hospital corridors for 18 hours, and some patients have to wait on a trolley in a corridor for 36 hours with a bowel obstruction – what has this country come to?

Stage 4 Colon Cancer Missed By Doctors

A mum-of-three who claimed her GP mistook signs of bowel cancer for a urinary infection three times has urged others to be mindful of the tell-tale signs of the disease. 

Last August, Zoe Gardner-Lawson, a resident of Bracknell, Berkshire, first called her family physician after experiencing a sudden, dull, and persistent discomfort in her lower back.

However, the 36-year-old was repeatedly prescribed antibiotics for over a month, despite the pain worsening. 

Then, in September, after complaining the pain had extended to her abdomen leaving her bedridden, she was advised by her GP to head straight to A&E. 

Initial tests indicated she may be suffering from kidney stones.

It was only after a full-body CT scan that doctors confirmed she had a 5cm tumour on her bowel and the HR manager was diagnosed with stage four cancer—the most serious kind that means it’s spread elsewhere in the body. 

Now undertaking her fifth round of chemotherapy Ms Gardner-Lawson is calling for the bowel cancer screening minimum age to be lowered to ‘at least’ 30.

Recalling her horrifying ordeal, she said: ‘My professor Jamie Murphy, told me that I could’ve been living with this tumour for up to four years before my diagnosis — that’s terrifying.

‘If all goes well, I still have a chance at achieving a “no evidence of disease” status, but it all depends on these next couple of years.

‘I’m young enough that they’re not considering it a terminal diagnosis just yet.’

‘The plan is, once I’ve had my sixth round of chemo, they’re hoping I’ll have responded well,’ she added.

‘All being well, I’ll need to be booked in for a second surgery—to remove remaining stomach lymph nodes and two tumours on my liver.’

There are about 44,000 cases of bowel cancer every year in the UK and 142,000 in the US, making it the fourth most common cancer in both countries.

But cases are increasing in young people, an alarming trend that professionals have connected to modern diets, chemical exposure and lifestyles.

Constant and fresh diarrhoea or constipation, the urge or sense of wanting to poop more or less regularly, and blood in the stool are all signs of colon cancer.

Stomach pain, a lump in the stomach, bloating, unexpected weight loss and fatigue are among other common signs. 

For guidance, anybody exhibiting these symptoms should speak with their general practitioner.

Having always felt ‘fit and healthy’ and seldom worried about her health, Ms Gardner-Lawson said she was shocked when she started experiencing lower back pain and booked a phone appointment with her GP.

‘There was just no change and by my third dose [of antibiotics], I’d really deteriorated,’ she said.

‘I was basically bedridden—I felt so unwell, and the back pain had spread to my abdomen.’

It was only after a fourth appointment with her GP on September 19 that she was advised to go to A&E.

‘My blood was checked for infection markers, called creatine reactive protein,’ she added.

‘They were rising, until they reached 364n/mol—a normal range for women is 52.9n/mol and 91.9n/mol.

‘A general surgeon came to see me, and he said it looked like I had fluid build-up on my abdomen.

‘I threw my toys out the pram then, I told them I wasn’t going to leave until I had a full-body CT.’

Results revealed she had a lime-sized tumour on her bowel that had spread to her liver, peritoneum—a membrane that surrounds the abdominal organs—and stomach lymph nodes. 

After being moved to the Cleveland Clinic in central London, she underwent a four-hour operation in October to remove as much of the tumour as possible and was told she’d need chemotherapy. 

‘I’ve tolerated it as well as anybody can, it’s pretty hardcore,’ Ms Gardner-Lawson said.

‘I’m on round five of eight in total—it’s three chemo drugs per round.

‘I’ve basically just taken the approach to throw the kitchen sink at it, improve my prognosis as much as possible.’

Earlier this month her sister Lisa also set up a GoFundMe page in an effort to raise funds for other potentially life-saving treatment and day-to-day help such as cash for extra child care, to lift the financial weight off Ms Gardner-Lawson’s shoulders.

To date, it has raised nearly £7,000. 

Ms Gardner-Lawson also believes if she had been offered a faecal immunochemical test [FIT] earlier, doctors may have caught her cancer years ago.

People aged 60 to 74 years who are registered with a GP practice and live in England are automatically mailed a FIT kit every two years.

But as part of plans to lower the age of people that receive the test to age 50 by 2025, the kits are also presently rolled out to those aged 54 and over. 

A tiny sample of faeces is taken from the toilet using a small stick that is given, and it is then sent back to an NHS lab in a plastic container.

Scientists then check for small amounts of blood in the poo—that would not be visible to the naked eye—as this could be an early indication something is amiss.

Now, Ms Gardner-Lawson believes the standard testing age should be lowered to at least 30 if not 25.

‘If my disease was caught earlier, it would’ve been easier to treat… I think the minimum age for testing needs to be reduced,’ she added.

Her ordeal comes as experts continue to warn of a troubling rise in bowel cancers in under 50s, which has puzzled doctors around the world.

The disease, the third most common cancer in the UK, is the same type that killed Dame Deborah James at age 40 in 2022. 

Although the vast majority of diagnoses affect those aged over 50, rates in older age groups have either declined or held steady while diagnoses in younger adults have increased by 50 percent over the last 30 years.

Cancer Research UK estimates that over half (54 percent) of bowel cancer cases in the UK are preventable.

Obesity, excessive use of antibiotics, radiation from cell phones, and even undetectable plastic particles in drinking water have all been proposed by doctors as possible causes.

But an increasing number of specialists are also blaming ultra-processed meals for the problem.

FIT tests may be purchased online. It might save someone’s life and isn’t costly.

Unfortunately, it’s a never-ending circle with these second-guessing GPs. They should not be guessing or playing Russian roulette with people’s lives. If they’re not confident that they diagnosed the patient correctly, then they should refer to a consultant.

Doctors will always guess the least serious option and treatment, rather than a referral to rule out the worst scenario because referrals cost money which in turn affects their profits, and primary care is not working. They were given more money for doing less. The caring aspect has long since gone.

Once the issue is recognised and addressed, the NHS is excellent. The issue is that scheduling an appointment with a general practitioner is very hard, and when you do, you are dismissed.

Swastikas Decorate The Southern Sydney Synagogue At Allawah

A Synagogue in Sydney has been spray-painted with at least a dozen Swastikas in the latest anti-semitic attack to plague the metropolis.

The Southern Sydney Synagogue in the suburb of Allawah was the latest target of anti-semitic defacers who smeared an enormous red Swastika symbol at the entrance to the place of worship alongside the words ‘Hitler on top’.

According to reports, two males wearing masks and black clothing were observed wandering around the synagogue early in the morning.

President of the Jewish Board of Deputies David Ossip told Daily Mail Australia ‘Enough is enough’.

‘It isn’t normal or acceptable that Australians are having to wake up every morning filled with apprehension about whether or not there’s been another antisemitic hate crime overnight,’ Mr Ossip said.

‘This illegal behaviour is reprehensible and undermines the social harmony and cohesion which we all treasure. 

‘We cannot allow ourselves to become desensitised to acts of Jew-hatred and allow illegal conduct such as this to become normalised. 

‘The alleged offenders must be swiftly identified and prosecuted and receive penalties sufficient to ensure that such conduct is deterred and not normalised.’ 

George Foster, President of the synagogue, said that he had received a call from police at 4.30 am that they had driven by and seen the place of worship had been attacked.

‘Looking at the CCTV it seems there were two men in black hoodies and masks who were spraying the walls of the synagogue,’ Mr Foster told The Daily Telegraph.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin called on the alleged offenders to ‘face the full force of the law’. 

‘As long as these people evade justice for trying to terrorise Australian citizens, it will continue,’ Mr Ryvchin added.

‘We’re also calling on our fellow Australians, particularly those in positions of influence across society, to end the silence and publicly denounce this behaviour as repugnant to our national values and a threat to us all.’

Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, branded the alleged crime ‘unforgivable outrage that should make every Australian’s blood boil’. 

‘To defile a synagogue—a place of worship, hope, and sanctuary—with the ultimate emblem of genocide and evil is nothing short of an attack on the very heart of our nation,’ he said. 

‘It’s an assault on every value we hold dear, and it screams that antisemitism is no longer hiding in the shadows—it’s out in the open, brazen and unashamed.

‘These swastikas, painted in malice, are not just symbols—they are bullets aimed at the soul of the Jewish community.

He added: ‘Let’s be clear, this act is nothing less than an attempt to terrorise and dehumanise, a desecration meant to spread fear and intimidation.’

‘What kind of society are we becoming when Holocaust survivors who rebuilt their lives in this country now have to witness the symbols of their tormentors defacing their places of worship?

‘This isn’t just graffiti—it’s a gut-wrenching reminder that the same hatred that fuelled the extermination camps is still alive and kicking. 

‘And make no mistake: this isn’t just a Jewish issue. This is an Australian issue. Because an attack on one community is an attack on all of us.’

The Australian Jewish Association said that ‘social cohesion has been destroyed’.

‘Every day, we wake up to news of a new antisemitic attack,’ the organisation posted on X. 

‘Australia has changed significantly under the Albanese Government.’

A spokesperson for NSW Police said that officers were ‘investigating after offensive graffiti was spray painted on a synagogue in Sydney’s southwest’.

But from a weak administration that has brought in hate, what do you expect?

In addition to observing, the police have safeguarded and helped this type of activity, as well as promoted and encouraged it.

We now have governments that side with terrorists, and as crazy as that sounds, it’s reality. They have encouraged this kind of behaviour and transformed the culture of Australian society, but I’m not surprised – people are not known for their intelligence!

These criminals need to be locked up for a long time, and if they are not native to the country, they should be deported immediately.

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